Show #6835 - Friday, May 9, 2014

Battle of the Decades quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois

Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia

Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy

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Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE
IT SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER
THAT '70s SHOW
SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES
YOU HAD ONE JOB!
FASHION "P"IECES
    $200 2
The giant species of this has a 2-foot tongue that it uses to lap up insects from inside mounds
    $200 10
Yellow-banded colonizer
    $200 5
Hello, Sabrina, Jill & Kelly, working for an unseen boss on this ABC show
    $200 9
Poison darts turn out to be the cause in "The Adventure of the Sussex" one of these Slavic fiends
    $200 11
A fletcher aims to live up to his name origin by making these pointy objects
    $200 1
These calf-length pants with an alliterative name were originally worn when bicycling
    $400 8
The smallest member of the camel family, it's related to the llama, alpaca & guanaco
    $400 14
Famous Fonz utterance
    $400 4
In 2013 Barry Williams revealed he has the Tiki that brought bad luck during a Hawaiian vacation on this show
    $400 20
Sea captain "Black Peter" Carey is killed with this weapon
    $400 15
A wainwright wrights these transports
    $400 3
This print is often seen on scarves & shawls
    $600 16
Also called a lancehead, this snake accounts for 90% of all snakebite-related fatalities in Brazil
    $600 6
A Parliamentary affirmative
    $600 19
Hal Linden was a Tony-winning actor when he began playing this mustachioed sitcom cop
    $600 23
There's "The Sign of" this group--Akbar, Khan, Singh & Small
    $600 21
In the pages of Variety, a thrush is this
    $600 7
In 2013 the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum had an exhibit on this look, "Chaos to Couture"
    DD: $1,000 17
This feline with a fancy coat is the only New World resident traditionally classified as a big cat
    $800 25
Commodity that's pretty steeped
    $800 22
Moonbase Alpha was the setting of this sci-fi series
    $800 27
"The Final Problem" culminates at this cataract
    $800 24
A funambulist balances work & play in this gig
    $800 12
The name of this type of Cashmere shawl comes from Urdu & Persian
    $1000 18
Brazil's Spix's species of this longest parrot may now be extinct; it hasn't been seen in the wild since 2000
    $1000 28
An Ecclesiastical office such as a bishop's
    $1000 29
Squad 51 kept on saving L.A. in this show with Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe & Julie London
    $1000 30
"The Man with the Twisted" this feature turns out to be an actor in makeup
    $1000 26
Latin for "hand" gave us this long word for a secretary
    $1000 13
Seen here on the Duchess of Cambridge, this pleated, flared extension of the bodice is on-trend

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Chuck Mark Colby
$2,000 $1,200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Chuck Mark Colby
$6,800 $4,200 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON WHAT ISLAND?
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
12+-LETTER WORDS
FEMALE WORLD LEADERS
____ THE ____
THE STARS WRITE
    $400 6
Fukushima Prefecture
    $400 20
The Furies scene in an Orpheus ballet was part of Gluck's period of "Sturm und" this
    $400 16
This "superior" word often precedes "meditation"
    $400 7
The daughter of a president who was assassinated, Park Geun-Hye is the president of this country
    $400 17
William H. Bonney was one of several aliases that he used
    $400 9
Loosely modeled on 12-step programs is James Franco's debut novel titled "Actors" this
    $800 11
Around 800 monumental Moai
    $800 23
In 1622 Thomas Tomkins published a set of these secular songs, some of the fa-la-la-last great ones
    $800 8
"Complete cardiac" term meaning fully supportive
    $800 5
Vigdis Finnbogadottir was president of this country for almost the entire 1980s
    $800 18
In a proverb, it precedes "and spoil the child"
    DD: $1,000 15
Born in 1928, in 2009 Dick Van Patten published a book titled this "Is Not Enough"
    $1200 12
The University of Catania
    $1200 25
Johann Pachelbel may have played this piece of his, still a favorite of brides & grooms, at the wedding of J.S. Bach's brother
    $1200 10
Herbert Hoover popularized "rugged" this doctrine of self-reliance
    $1200 3
Following her brother Thaksin, Yingluck Shinawatra is the first woman prime minister of this country
    $1200 19
It's what Clara Peller wanted to know in TV commercials of the 1980s
    $1200 4
"There and Back Again" tells of this actor's time playing Samwise Gamgee
    $1600 13
Hobart International Airport
    $1600 26
This 19th century composer's "Spring" symphony shows no signs of the mental illness that later overcame him
    $1600 24
Adjective for any gemstone that's not a diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald
    DD: $2,200 2
Her husband's assassination & a People Power Revolution made her president in 1986
    $1600 21
Sal Paradise is a self-portrait in this 1950s novel
    $1600 28
This former writer/actor on "The Office" got good reviews for his 2014 book of fiction "One More Thing"
    $2000 14
Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
    $2000 27
This British composer of "Over The Hills And Far Away" was of German parentage, & "Frederick" was originally "Fritz"
    $2000 30
Say cheese! It's abnormal susceptibility to stimulation of the skin by ultraviolet light
    $2000 1
This last name of Megawati, Indonesia's first female president, came from her father, ex-leader Sukarno
    $2000 22
Derived from an Old Testament story, to face danger is to do this to the king of beasts
    $2000 29
"From Punky to Parenting" is this former child star's advice book

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Chuck Mark Colby
$14,400 $10,600 $11,800

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS BOOKS
It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011

Final scores:

Chuck Mark Colby
$11,900 $8,600 $11,000
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $10,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $10,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Chuck Mark Colby
$14,400 $10,400 $12,200
21 R,
1 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2014-04-16
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